MEET OUR TEAM

Soma Shakti is built with love, a combination of Maidens and Mothers are the life force behind everything that we do here. Without women, we would not be here today. This is our team, each one contributing to this space whilst also offering their own unique birth services to the world.

Daniela Ekman Perez

Founder of Soma Shakti

Daniela's journey with Ayurveda began in 2012 in Mysore, India, where she first immersed herself in this ancient system of medicine and began a relationship with Ayurveda that would continue to deepen and shape her life's work.

Her studies later brought her to the United States, where she studied with Dr. Vasant Lad, and in 2016 she returned to India to undertake gurukul study at his ashram in Pune, living and learning within the traditional rhythms of Ayurvedic practice.

During her time in Pune, Daniela also studied Ayurvedic Obstetrics and Gynaecology with Dr. Amruta Athale, beginning a deeper exploration into the ways Ayurveda has traditionally tended women through fertility, pregnancy, birth and the postpartum passage. Her education continued through studies with Kerala Ayurveda and through years of hands-on clinical experience.

She went on to work as an Ayurvedic therapist at Surya Ayurveda in Los Angeles and later at Hale Pule in Hawaii, allowing the teachings she had received to become embodied through the everyday practice of caring for others.

Over time, her path became increasingly devoted to women.

Daniela began going deeper into Ayurveda for pregnancy, birth and, especially, the sacred weeks and months after birth. She had the privilege of accompanying many women through their postpartum journeys. Preparing nourishing foods and herbs, offering warm oil therapies, tending their bodies, protecting rest, and creating a space in which the mother herself could be deeply held.

It was through this work that Soma Shakti was born.

Soma Shakti grew from a desire to remember postpartum as more than recovery. It is a sacred threshold, a time of profound openness and transformation in which the mother deserves to be nourished, protected and tended with extraordinary care.

Today, Daniela shares what she has gathered through more than a decade of studying, practising and living Ayurveda through Soma Shakti's Ayurvedic Postpartum Doula Training.

Her intention is to support a new generation of postpartum doulas to tend mothers with skill, reverence and presence. Bringing the timeless principles of Ayurveda into the homes and communities of women today.

Because when a mother is deeply tended,
something much greater than the mother is nourished.
Her baby, her family, and the generations that follow are held too.